As Hike became the 10th Indian start-up to hit a valuation of at least $1 billion, founder and chief executive Kavin Bharti Mittal spoke in an interview about raising money from WeChat’s owner Tencent and Taiwan’s Foxconn. Mittal also spoke about deployment of the funds, possible synergies with Tencent and competition with WhatsApp. Edited excerpts:
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